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PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

DevOps Automation

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Upgrade Agent have limitation of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer Agent - which is problematic if customer have 50.000 UCD Agents to upgrade

Upgrade Agent feature have limitation described on documentation as: "Updating many agents simultaneously can have a significant affect the server. As a rule-of-thumb, limit the number of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer." Which is problematic...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Provide mTLS support in web utilities plugin for REST HTTP calls

currently web utilities plugin supports basic authentication only for HTTP calls and this does not meet our security standards for automation.
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Deploy data sets to multiple target PDS

For deployment to production of our online load modules we have a situation where two different target PDS are involved, one for runtime (GITZ.PR2.ONLINE.LOAD)(and on for nightly deployments (GITZ.PR2.NEW.ONLINE.LOAD). When deploying to PR the use...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Planned for future release

Metrics for deployments to show actual deployer

By specifying the user that triggered the deployment, the metrics become much more meaningful
almost 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 2 Planned for future release

Recurrence Pattern, Description, Scheduled/Unscheduled and Calendar View for Maintenance Blackouts

This idea is to introduce a Recurrence Pattern, Reminders, Description, Scheduled/Unscheduled and a Calendar View for Maintenance Blackouts. Recurrence Pattern: When you click 'Create Maintenance Blackout' it allows you to schedule the date & ...
12 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Planned for future release

Fail Fast External Approval Process

In our testing of the External Approval Process we have seen that it waits until the scheduled deployment time to execute the External Approval Process. We would like to be able to configure it so that the External Approval Process executes immedi...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Velocity Pipeline to display component view

For UrbanCode Velocity connections to UrbanCode Deploy - The pipeline can only display the Applications. Furthermore, the build version will always be the snapshot. We need Velocity to display the UrbanCode Deploy Component. Furthermore, we need t...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 2 Planned for future release

Eclipse 4.32 support for ClearCase 10.0.1.x

The customer is one of the biggest WAS customer in Japan, having over 40,000PVUs inventory. They uses ClearCase 10.0.1.0 for SCM. To upgrade Java IDE, they plan to use Eclipse 4.32 and IBM Liberty Developer Tools. But now, ClearCase 10.0.1.0 - 10....
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / ClearCase 1 Planned for future release

when configuring gatekeeping rules, we can only enter users and not teams/groups

with the current configuration we would need to add an enormous amount of users instead of just the teams and we would need to be constantly updating the rule as staff moves on
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 10 Planned for future release

RFT supports for Microsoft Edge with IE mode

Now, we are using Microsoft Edge but web application designed for IE is still remaining. Therefore, we request RFT supports Edge with IE mode.
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 4 Planned for future release